r/EntitledPeople

A mind boggling exchange at the airport this weekend. The gates were packed. The seating area is full, people standing around and sitting on the floor. I spot an open seat at the end of three chairs. At the far end was a woman, bags in the middle seat, the last seat is open. So I sit down. She looks up from her phone, “that’s my husband’s seat.” I point at the bags and ask, “who is sitting there?” She scowls and repeats that I’m in her husband’s seat. I tell her he can sit where the bags are. We bicker back and forth and I tell her, “it’s standing room only, you don’t need three seats for two people.” Her husband returns from wherever he was. He’s glaring at me and together they huff away to stand at their gate. For the next ten minutes I’d look up to see them scowling at me, then laughing at me. Whatever. I enjoyed sitting, as did the two others that grabbed the vacated seats. I’m too old for that crap.

Last year I was a bridesmaid at a friend's wedding. I was thrilled as it was a dream come true. Such a dream come true I lost all sense of self respect.

From the moment she was engaged I was fully by her side and went above and beyond to make it the best experience possible for her. I noticed a few red flags in her behavior all year long but I was so focused on the wedding that I would brush it off and let her and the other bridesmaids walk all over me. When the wedding day arrived, I was already tired and happy it would all be over very soon.

The very day before the wedding, my sister's friend asked me if I was taking my camera to which I answered no. She then told me to talk to the bride because she might want me to. So I did. My friend asked me shamelessly less than 24h before her wedding to take my camera and cover the courthouse wedding as it was too expensive to hire a professional photographer for both the courthouse and the ceremony. Mind you I'm an amateur photographer. I do weddings. I get paid for it... That's the moment I should've definitely walked away. But I didn't and I showed up with my camera the next day, for free. I was there since the beginning of the wedding planning, and she just waited the day before the wedding to ask. That says it all.

The wedding was just the extension of the year that had passed. Same vibes, same behaviors, but it still went well.

After that, all my energy was gone. I was relieved it was finally over. But then my newlywed friend asked me to hang out, so we set a date. And she cancelled last minute. It happened again about 5 times in 2 months before we were able to see each other. But I had no energy left for her. I entered 2026 not sure if this friendship would be saved. Then she did it again, she cancelled on me last minute twice in a month.

I loved her so making a decision was hard, but I did. I thought of everything I had been through the past year and I was so done. I realized what I had allowed. Lots of lessons were learned!!

I broke up with her on Valentine's Day, that way she should remember it.

I live on a street with free unassigned parking. There is a row of units next to me, which has a driveway and a parking garage for each unit. Most of the rest of us park on the street. But an older couple in one of the units is absolutely obsessed with reserving the spot outside their place. They never seem to actually leave their home, they just seem to always be watching that parking space. They'll peek out of their door and make disapproving noises, or they will come out and ask you to leave because it needs to be left for them. It is absolutely not, in any way, legally their parking space. And they do have their own garage.

Today, it was the only free space, so I parked there. The lady emerged and said I needed to leave because she had a 'truck delivery at some time today'. I replied (politely) that unfortunately it's not an assigned space and there's nowhere else to park. She said 'just be kind', which hit a nerve because I reckon I am quite a kind person. But then she called me a 'bloody bitch' and a 'shithead'.

My grandfather (1929–2026) was the most loving person, unfortunately because he saw the cost of hate firsthand. He escaped his invaded homeland of Poland as a teenager through making connections with German soldiers, but he was the only one in his family to make it out. He forged a new life for himself in America, marrying my grandmother. My Nana...was kind of a Karen, I'm not gonna lie. She pushed my grandpa around a lot, and criticized basically his every move. Grandpa was an ally to every walk of person, and never said a bad word about anyone. He was a quiet, introverted man who loved gardening and cooking. My Nana was an extroverted socialite, a gossip, and a judgmental bigot. Unfortunately, all 3 of their kids took way more after their mother, but her middle child, my aunt, is her mirror image. My dad and I call her La Carnicera ("The Butcher"), but I'll be referring to her as aunt Karina bc it sounds similar to Karen. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In short, aunt Karina is a born-again, performative type of Christian that makes the rest of us in the Jesus Squad look absolutely insane to the rest of the world. She needs everyone to know how Christian she is, it's like a compulsion. You cannot take two steps into her house without running into a Bible quote, a cross, or a white Jesus. She's also, like my Nana, very judgmental of people who aren't Christians, like my Jewish dad and his family. Or my partner, whose atheism I think she takes higher issue with then the fact that they're trans. What drives me the slightest bit insane is that she played non-stop generic Christian guitar ballads on the TV in my grandpa's hospice room the last week of his life, and I had to turn it off after he already passed so the rest of us could cry in peace. (Side note, this incident unlocked a new fear of dying to bad music in me so my dad and I have now picked out what we're now calling our "Deathbed Soundtrack" of songs we'd like the family to play when it's our time.)

Hopefully that background knowledge was helpful for what actually went down the day of the funeral.

So the church only allowed 1 eulogy at the service. I honestly think that's ridiculous, but my grandpa was a founding member, so there's nowhere else he'd want us to do this. Aunt Karina, of course, wants to do it, and her siblings are too tired to fight her. And I'm not gonna lie, it started off very well. She went over the hardships grandpa faced, and how admirable it was for him to forge a family and a steady career, how much he loved every person he met on the street. I'm actually cracking a smile, enjoying this time of reflection on the best person I knew. I feel the slightest bit of peace for the first time in weeks (the funeral was 16 days after grandpa's death, btw, because Aunt Karina really needed to fly out of state with her husband for a little excursion).

And then she drops the line, "I hope that my father's life of faith has inspired those of you who have not accepted Jesus Christ as your savior to ensure your soul's eternal life, so you can meet again in Heaven." To the entire congregation of loved ones, from all walks of life, and all kinds of faiths, attending my grandpa's funeral. Including my dad, her brother-in-law of 40 freaking years, and his Jewish family.

Now I knew she was off the deep-end with her beliefs, but I had no idea she thought non-Christians didn't get eternal life. And I also thought she'd at least have the minimal amount of shame to not use her father's tragic passing as a platform to shame his friends in a way he never would have approved of. Even though the funeral was days ago, I'm still fuming about it. The worst part is, I have to invite all my parents' siblings to my 25th birthday party, including her, or else her drama will just multiply tenfold. I'm counting down the days until my partner and I have enough to move so I never have to interact with her again.

Planned obsolescence is the common practice to make products to last a specific, pre-planned lifespan then wear out, forcing you to buy a new one.

It started in 1924 when the largest light bulb manufacturers Osram, Philips, and General Electric formed a secret club that agreed light bulbs should be designed to cut the existing expected lifespan from 2,400 hours to 1,000 wirh steep fines for anybody who broke the rule. History fans, look up Pheobus cartel.

In 1932, real estate broker Bernard London published his pamphlet Ending the Depression Through Planned Obsolescence which called on the federal government to establish expiration dates on just about everything - clothes,.cars, radios, appliances - to force people to buy more replacements. He was ignored.

Many companies today hire engineers to figure out how to force parts to fail after a specific period of time. A fridge with a 3 year warranty may have a compressor with a targeted time to fail of 42 months, or a kitchen stand mixer trades gears that were still in perfect condition after 50 years with plastic gears expected to fail in five.

Epson France took it to a new level.

In their inkjet printers there is a sponge in a tray designed to catch excess ink. You can not get to it without major surgery, they do not sell replacements anyway, and it is tied to a page counter: after so many pages the printer bricks. Epson is generous enough to publish a utility that gives you 50 more pages so you can finish your last print job, but the utility will only work once, then the printer is bricked and you need to buy a new one.

There exist hacks to unbrick it, but the possibility that somebody puts malware in a third party, unsigned app is not zero, and these would be illegal in the US anyway under the DMCA (that people ignore until they get sued).

Epson says this is for your safety, if the spill sponge is full it might leak ink onto the electronics and cause a fire, and at any rate they are entitled to maximize profits and the French Government has no right to interfere.

France passed a law specifically targeting planned obsolescense in 2015. In 2021 this was expanded to require durability information on the products as well.

Companies that violate the law get hit wirh a 300,000 Euro fine. This is the base. They can get hit with up to 5% of total company revenue above this.

The executives get two years in prison.

To date bo company has been formally charged. Apple was headed that way over the battery scandal, but their settlement resulted in France abandoning the criminal route. Apple continued to argue that it was their right to slow the phones down and they were entitled to do whatever they want (you can thank Europe spanking Apple for every phone using USB-C now) but they read the tides and stopped rowing against the current.

On July 2, Epson became the first company in the world to be formally charged with breaking a planned obsolescense law. They continue to argue that it is their right to do so and are entitled to less interference from the French government.

Here's hoping they don't blink and settle - filling the role of executive inmate is so hard to do.

Went to a concert a few nights ago for my favorite artist. Got my friend and I really good seats for and have been looking forward to this for months. Well, the row behind us had about 5 people just loudly talking through most of the songs. The worst is that fact that for every quieter song, I couldn’t even hear the artist they were talking and laughing so much. I turned around and asked if they could just tone it down as it was really distracting and rows in front of us can even hear them (so many people were turning around to look and give dirty looks).

After asking the first time, it was okay for a couple songs but the next slower song came and I asked again, please tone it down. And while the guy was much nicer about the one lady took the stance of “I’m allowed to talk, I’m outside” and I respond with the fact that yeah but you’re also at a concert.

I just genuinely don’t understand why you spend that amount of money to see someone in concert and to then not listen to the artist??? How do people not have the decency to recognize that it’s horribly disrespectful for the people around you?? They were quieter-ish but we could hear them just make off handed comments the rest of the night.

I’m truly heart broken watching all the videos pop up of the concert because, what was supposed to be of the best memories with my friend is now overshadowed by people being assholes

So was going to get eggs from Aldi’s (only 1.38) for a 12. So naturally for three. And there is this person looking like she hasn’t showered in days out front begging. I asked her what is wrong what do you need? This ***** asked for a Chipotle hot burrito and said other people have gotten that for her. I said no will get you something from Aldi, what would you like? She said NOTHING with emphasis. This person was extremely determined and what do you guys think am here like what??? Really???

Tonight I am celebrating my 24th birthday and was out today earlier chillin when some dudes on bicycles rolled up and asked to use my pen. I decided to be cool with them feeling bad and let them try it which was honestly my mistake.

​We talked for a good minute getting to know them but eventually had to leave, but when I asked for it back, the dude holding on to it changed his vibe doin a complete 180 and says to me, "I wanna keep it, I'll even trade you." After telling him no, imma need it back right now he tells me " Naw, I think I'm gonna keep it," and even asked his friends if he should give it back and both stays quiet.

​I grabbed his shirt sleeve as he was trying to ride away from me also at this point I was very upset at the fact that being nice to them only to try and steal from me in return so after askin his friends I reply by asking him, "if you are really gonna steal from me on my birthday?"

​He immediately hands it back and says to me, "ohhhhh right I forgot you told me today it your birthday and then" hands it back to me and when I leave they all try and apologize.

​ Walkee away at this point and they were trying to resolve it by telling me how they forget it was my birthday and asked to dap them up meaning (shake hands) for the confusion but not only was my anxiety though the roof but I was in shock and all I could rlly say "Naw, I'm good I try to be nice and this is how you repay me im goin home then left after all that.....

My stepmom (let’s call her Betty) is horrible, and my step sis (15f) who I’ll call Jill is as well, we went to my dads lake house for the Fourth of July even tho i didn’t want to and wanted to go to my friends bbq. I’m (15 almost 16m).

Anyway it’s the fourth and my parents had a cookout with some neighbors and their kids over. I was told that i have to watch all the kids because im the oldest. I wasn’t btw there was a 17 and a few like 18/19/20ish people there but i guess they can “drink in Europe” so they were partying and im supposed to babysit all these kids i don’t know for free.

Jill has issues and im supposed to be in charge of her, and she’s harder to deal with then the little kids were. If she’s not getting enough attention she pretends to go missing and stuff like that.

So Jill goes and hides under the dock and i didn’t notice because we are the same age and i was watching the little kids in the yard. But no one noticed because the adults were partying, then she starts screaming and pretending she drowning even tho she’s holding onto the dock and one guy pulls her out and is very casual about it. Most of the adults were.

Also i know she was there for awhile because she’s usually all over me but also she was crying about how long it took me to notice she was gone and she “almost died”

But Betty went nuts on me for endangering her, even tho she was in the same yard as me but she was drinking so that’s her excuse. Ok but that’s your kid not mine. Sorry i was more focused on the kids under 10 that i was forced to watch.

Now I’m not allowed out of my room for the rest of the time here because “she could have died” and it proves my point i was only here to be a baby sitter. Sorry I’m not good at raising someone the same age as me, maybe you should try it instead of me Betty.

For context I always knew my mother was rude, like not hold door open for you, run into you with her trolly, or stand in middle of street type rude. But I thought when it came to people working a customer service type job she'd be different. I thought this because all 3 of her children work in a customer service type roles.

So over the weekend my mum was looking to return an item of clothing she had bought online to 1 of their high street shops.

Now returning said item was not an issue for the staff member and all he needed was mums receipt that was emailed to her. This is where my mum turned into a Karen 🤦🏻‍♀️

She began huffing and hawing because she had no idea where said email was. She then proceeded to curse at the employee about how she had bought it from this company so couldnt see what the issue was returning it 🤦🏻‍♀️

The guy that was serving her was really nice and polite when he explained it wasn't an issue he just needed to see proof of purchase. I completely understood this and was standing behind her mouthing an apology to the worker while hoping the ground would open up and swallow me!!!

I even asked after we had left the shop how she would feel if someone had spoke to 1 of her kids like that to try and emphasis she was out of line. But this was to deaf ears.

I was honestly mortified 😂🤦🏻‍♀️

This just happened. My friend (29F) and I (31F) were sitting on a bench waiting for a bus. My friend happened to have her feet tucked up. She put them down just as an elderly man came over and he started lecturing her very loudly and rudely about putting her feet on the bench and how now he can't sit there because some people don't know better.

My friend ignored him, but I find being yelled at in public one of the scariest things that's ever happened to me (I was once screamed at for bumping someone's car and apologizing just made him angrier, and another man yelled at my mother when I was with her for the same thing, acting like I was out to ruin all paintwork), so this made me mad. I tried to tell him politely that he didn't need to be so rude (aka "Please don't be so angry with her") and he told me, also rudely, that he has every right to be mad because she should know better than to put her feet on the bench. Okay, maybe that's true, but what's ruder - putting your feet up on a bench that birds have shit on and has probably been puked on at some point, or yelling at a complete stranger who's minding her own business?

So what do you think?

William Nieporte, co-founder of Bramshill Investments co-signed with the other two co-founders a letter sent to all employees saying return to the office five days a week or take a severance package.

He himself did not return to the office and was fired by his partners. A bylaw of the parent company they set up, Ironmen, required that anybody fired for cause was required to sell their stake in the company.

He is now suing the both the company and ADP, the latter being the HR company that processed his termination.

He says it was obvious that such a rule would not apply to an owner, so in his words he "appropriately ignored the email".

Another claim was that he was not notified of pending action via fax, hand delivery, courier or certified mail, which were the only valid methods of notification, even though he acted on the notice and later complained that he wasn't given as much time as the invalid notification he didn't accept said he wpuld have.

He now works for a startup, with remote work explicitly allowed. At least for him.

I know people are enjoying the 4th, but when is it enough? My neighbors decide to go out at 12:30 AM and decide to light off all of their fireworks. I mean, they had all night and choose to do it at almost 1 AM.
Now my baby is wide awake. Am I wrong for saying something to them???

My husband, 2 sons and sons GF went out last night to a cool little bar. We were having a great time. We have a family group chat and were sharing pictures. My daughter flipped out and removed herself from the group chat because “ we were wasting money because we had her wedding to pay for”. I’m just flabbergasted. She doesn’t even have a date or anything planned. We have already told her what we would contribute. She hasn’t talked to us since. What the heck is going on here? Why does she think that she can dictate what we spend our money on or that we can’t afford to pay for this unknown future wedding. We are not obligated to pay anything and this just hits me all wrong. Your thoughts?

I was in the local grocery store standing in a long line with a few items to make dinner for my kids that night. A checkout teller grabbed the cart in front of me and said "I will helped you next at the other register." I followed closely behind, but a guy slipped in front of me and put his loaf of bread on the conveyor belt. I said excuse me, but I am in line." His response was, "Who made you the line police? Besides, my bread is already there!" OH NO, he chose the wrong guy at the wrong time. I was going through a tough divorce at that time and had just gotten a phone call from my cheating spouse before I came in the store. I picked up the loaf, looked him in eyes and said, "Not anymore!" I threw his loaf 50 feet back down the bread aisle and stood there. Meanwhile, the cashier is frantically scanning my groceries to get my crazy ass out of the store.

I do freelance graphic design, and every now and then someone I vaguely know reaches out. A former classmate messaged me asking if I could make a simple logo for their new business. They admitted money was tight and asked if I could "help them out." I liked the idea, had some free time, and agreed to do it for free.

The first draft came back with "just a couple of tiny changes." Then another list. Then they wanted different fonts. Different colors. A completely different concept. Then social media banners because "it should all match." Then business cards. Every time I'd mention that this was getting way beyond what we'd originally discussed, they'd say, "Come on, it only takes a few minutes for someone who knows what they're doing."

The final straw was when they asked if I'd also make updates "whenever needed" after launch because I'd already created the files. I told them I'd be happy to continue, but from that point on I'd be charging my normal rate. They got offended, said I clearly didn't care about supporting small businesses, and told a mutual friend I was greedy.

Doing someone a favor doesn't mean you've signed up to become their unpaid employee.

I’ll try to make this short but this pissed me off. I get to the gym at around 830pm. I get on the treadmill and start to walk. I notice there is a guy sitting at the squat rack talking to a girl, ok no problem. I get off the treadmill 15 mins later he’s still sitting at the squat rack bench conversing. So I move on to another exercise(10 mins) I notice he is still talking, so I go up and ask are you guys still using this(politely) (thinking maybe he already used the equipment before I arrived and was just chilling talking afterwards and got distracted) He goes ya with a puzzled look on his face, as I walk away I can see in the mirror he made a rude rolling eyes expression on his face as if he was totally confused that I was asking him that question. By this point it’s about 910 and he starts doing his sets. I had to completely rearrange my work out which I was already annoyed because I know I’m not going to have the energy for heavy compound movements which I usually do at the beginning. Anyways it’s about 10:05(1 and a half hours later) he’s still at the squat rack so I just give up and walk back over to the treadmill to cool down. AS SOON as I get on the treadmill he is somehow finished at the rack. I can’t help to think that he did this intentionally and was trying to prove a point, and a part of me thinks he had animosity because I interrupted his conversation with the girl, because as soon as I asked if he was done she walked away. Maybe it’s all in my head. Who knows. How would you have handled this situation?

Starting on June 8th last month signs were posted at the front desk and door saying July third the gym I work for will be closing early at noon for the fourth and will reopen July sixth. Emails were also sent and gym members were told at the end of their training sessions. A lot of people took notice all except one today. When 11:50 am rolled in my boss announced over the PA System, “We will be closing in ten minutes please finish your workout in a safe manner and we will see you all on Monday. Thank you and Have a safe Fourth of July everyone.” The one person finished what I observed to be their last repetition of bicep curls, wipes down the weights and bench, puts dumbbells back but then heads to a nearby bench to set up doing chest press with bar.

I walk up and say, “Excuse me? We’re closing soon.” Guy I can tell is ignoring me through music in his headphones. I get an air horn used to alert gym members if they’re breaking the rules and I blast it which makes the guy unplug his ear phones, he says, “Woah what’s with the air horn?! I didn’t break any rules!” I told him, “We’re closing in seven minutes you need to leave we’ll be open again on Monday.” Guy shrugs me off and goes to get weight plates. I remove the bar and when he returns he asks me what my problem is he’ll only be a few minutes, I again tell him we’re closing and he refuses to leave. I go to a nearby phone and call my boss saying we got a straggler. My boss makes her presence be seen and she tells the guy if he doesn’t leave she’ll call the police and have him escorted out and charged with trespassing. They get into an intense stare off with guy eventually leaving to the locker room then leaving the building. My boss said she’ll look over the security footage on Monday and have the front desk do a cross reference to find which member he is and issue a suspension of his membership.

Update: So just to clarify to one commenter, I didn't blast the air horn in the guys face i was a good distance away where i knew the sound would travel towards him and he would hear me. To other commenters a business though they say close by one time they can certainly close earlier if needed to make sure that there are no loose ends left to be dealt with after being closed for a few days such as any leftover trash, discarded gatorade/powerade/water bottles, etc. so for those who defended my boss and I for telling the guy it was time to go thank you.

In the region served by the PJM grid (everything South of Michigan and Nrw York, East of Indiana and North of North Carolina and Tennessee) is running put of power as the heat wave causes people to run AC units like there is no tomorrow. The grid is at max capacity, any significant spikes in demand or any problems with the lines or generators will push things into the "this is really bad" category.

While construction booms led to part of the problem, the data centers are by far the biggest category of new power draws. They did not pay for new power plants, they did not pay for higher transmission capacity, they demanded the residential consumers pay for it all and demanded the right to build NOW do they can start making money.

Now they have used up all of the safety padding and the entire grid is in.a precarious situation.

They did plan ahead so they could still operate during blackouts by installing massive backup generators to keep that money coming in. They don't like using them though, between maintenance, fuel, inefficiencies of not producing in grid level quantities they refused to turn them on and reduce the demand on the grid.

Between all of the data centers they were sitting on 35 GW of generating capacity, enough for 26,000,000 (26 million) homes, but to save money...

There is a glimmer of hope though. The US Energy Secretary wrote an order giving PJM permission to order centers to turn on their generators or go without power, in which case they would just turn on the generators anyway, and keep making money while the grid is repaired.

Link to order 202-26-33 https://www.energy.gov/documents/doe-order-no-202-26-33 - 11 pages of fedesl bureauese if you are interested.

And a related website that you've never heard of, gridstatus.io which lets you see how much electricity wholesale rates are, how much us being used, a breakdown of electricity generation sources, all in real-time.

In the past 7 days power costs went from $72 per MegaWatt hour to $308 (the DA means day ahead). Heat causes spikes in price, but with the centers throwing in their 35 GW the spikes are cut by 50%-75% and more importantly can prevent grid collapse.

But they are unwilling to do it without a federal order.